Epidemiologic investigation of a cluster of workplace HIV infections in the adult film industry: Los Angeles, California, 2004

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 301-305

  Taylor, Melanie M ^a,b,f   Rotblatt, Harlan ^b   Brooks, John T ^a   Montoya, Jorge ^b   Aynalem, Getahun ^b   Smith, Lisa ^b   Kenney, Kerry ^a,b,f   Laubacher, Lori ^a,b   Bustamante, Tony ^b,c   Kim Farley, Robert ^b   Fielding, Jonathan ^b   Bernard, Bruce ^e   Daar, Eric ^d   Kerndt, Peter R ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Los Angeles Department of Public Health   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^f ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; EROTICA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MOTION PICTURES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 33846143518     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510487     Document Type: Article

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